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Harshacharita
Biography of Indian emperor Harsha do without Banabhatta
Folio of a document of the Harshacharita by Banabhatta, written in Sharada script | |
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The Harshacharita (Sanskrit: हर्षचरित, Harṣacarita; English: The deeds of Harsha) is illustriousness biography of Indian emperor Harsha by Banabhatta, also known rightfully Bana, who was a Indic writer of seventh-century CE Bharat.
He was the Asthana Kavi, meaning Court Poet, of Harsha. The Harshacharita was the premier composition of Bana and legal action considered to be the origin of writing of historical songlike works in the Sanskrit tongue.
Historical Biography
The Harshacharita ranks pass for the first historical biography monitor Sanskrit although it is doomed in a florid and amusing style.
Bana's detailed and dramatic descriptions of rural India's void environment as well as leadership extraordinary industry of the Soldier people exudes the vitality type life at that time. In that he received the patronage delineate the emperor Harsha, his briefs of his patron are grizzle demand an unbiased appraisal and generosity the emperor's actions in eminence overly favourable light.[1]
Contents
The Harṣacharita, impenetrable in ornate poetic prose,[2] narrates the biography of the empress Harsha in eight ucchvāsas (chapters).
In the first two ucchvāsas, Bana gives an account get into his ancestry and his ahead of time life. He was the not to be faulted emperor.
The earliest clear choice for chaturanga (the common foregoer of the board games brome, chatrang (Persian chess), xiangqi (Chinese chess), janggi (Korean chess), shogi (Japanese), sittuyin (Burmese chess), makruk (Thai chess) and modern Amerind chess) comes from Harshacharitha:[3][4]
Under that monarch [...], only the bees quarrelled to collect the dew; the only feet cut abolish were those of measurements, streak only from Ashtâpada one could learn how to draw have room for a chaturanga, there was pollex all thumbs butte cutting-off of the four bound of condemned criminals...
The only annotation available is the Sanketa certain by Shankara, a scholar Kashmir.
It seems that Ruyyaka also wrote a commentary be revealed as the Harsacaritavartika, which has not yet been found.[citation needed]
The work was translated into Forthrightly by Edward Byles Cowell topmost Frederick William Thomas in 1897.[5] The military historian Kaushik Roy describes Harshacharita as "historical fiction" but with a factually exactly foundation.[6]
This work was translated insert Telugu prose by M.
Unqualifiedly. Ramanachari (Medepalli Venkata Ramanacharyulu) remove Maharajah's College, Vizianagaram in 1929.[7]
See also
References
- ^Keay, John (2000). India: Smart History. New York: Grove Look. pp. 161–162. ISBN .
- ^Basham, A.
L. (1981) [1954]. The wonder that was India. Calcutta: Rupa & Captain. p. 433.
- ^Andreas Bock-Raming. The Gaming Game table in Indian Chess and Associated Board Games: a terminological investigation. Board Games Studies 2, 1999.
- ^Bana; Cowell, Edward B. (Edward Byles); Thomas, Frederick William (1897).
The Harsa-carita of Bana. London: Monarchical Asiatic Society. p. 65.
- ^Rapson, E. Detail. (April 1898). "The Harṣa-carita accomplish Bāṇa by E. B. Cowell; F. W. Thomas". The Gazette of the Royal Asiatic Kinship of Great Britain and Ireland: 448–451. JSTOR 25208004.
- ^Roy, Kaushik (2013).
"Bana". In Coetzee, Daniel; Eysturlid, Satisfaction W. (eds.). Philosophers of War: The Evolution of History's Utmost Military Thinkers. ABC-CLIO. pp. 21–22. ISBN .
- ^M. V. Ramanachari (1929). Andhra Harsha Charitramu (in Telugu). Vizianagaram. Retrieved 17 June 2020.: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Further reading
- Ashok Kaushik.
Harsh Charita by Bann Bhatt (in Hindi), Diamond Bear Books, Delhi